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Old 03-11-2007, 02:11 PM   #16
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I can't answer that either but I have expected your hdb1 and hdb2 should be OK all along.

It is possible that the Bios read or initialisation process was unreliable causing a loss of the partition table information to the Bios. On a reboot everything could have reverted back to normal.

You now know your hdb3 is an extended partition starting from cylinder 1913 to 19887 and is Type 5.
 
Old 03-11-2007, 04:29 PM   #17
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È il nostro piacere aiutare mtb.

(My best effort. Sorry, my Italian is really bad!)
 
Old 03-11-2007, 05:03 PM   #18
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Never trust a disk that does something unusual.
Back it up.
Now.

Best thing for keeping a "backup" (bad word) of the partition table is sfdisk - it will create a (readable) text file with all the relevant info. Put it somewhere safe - not on the same disk; USB is good.
If it all goes to hell, this can be fed back into sfdisk and it'll recreate your partition table - as it was at the time of backup.
Very handy.
 
Old 03-11-2007, 05:45 PM   #19
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È il nostro piacere aiutare mtb.
Just perfect

Quote:
Never trust a disk that does something unusual.
Back it up.
Now.
Tomorrow i'll buy a new one and i'll copy everything on it.

The problem is that i don't know what could have been. I even suspect the apt-get upgrade with libparted and parted...

Are smart logs interesting? ( nothing strange for me... But it isn't that "clear" )

Code:
smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Maxtor DiamondMax 10 family
Device Model:     Maxtor 6B160P0
Serial Number:    B42J7GVH
Firmware Version: BAH41B70
User Capacity:    163,928,604,672 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   7
ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-7 T13 1532D revision 0
Local Time is:    Sun Mar 11 23:41:27 2007 CET
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x80) Offline data collection activity
                                        was never started.
                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status:      (   0) The previous self-test routine completed
                                        without error or no self-test has ever
                                        been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:                 (1622) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities:                    (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new
                                        command.
                                        Offline surface scan supported.
                                        Self-test supported.
                                        No Conveyance Self-test supported.
                                        Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
                                        power-saving mode.
                                        Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
                                        No General Purpose Logging support.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:        (  72) minutes.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   206   206   063    Pre-fail  Always       -       18793
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       2397
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   063    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  6 Read_Channel_Margin     0x0001   253   253   100    Pre-fail  Offline      -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0027   248   245   187    Pre-fail  Always       -       60233
  9 Power_On_Minutes        0x0032   245   245   000    Old_age   Always       -       627h+02m
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x002b   253   252   157    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b   253   252   223    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   247   247   000    Old_age   Always       -       2462
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0032   041   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       48
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x000a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       11517
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0008   253   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0008   253   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0008   253   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0008   199   199   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x000a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate    0x000a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
202 TA_Increase_Count       0x000a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
203 Run_Out_Cancel          0x000b   253   252   180    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
204 Shock_Count_Write_Opern 0x000a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
205 Shock_Rate_Write_Opern  0x000a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
207 Spin_High_Current       0x002a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
208 Spin_Buzz               0x002a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0024   253   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
210 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
211 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
212 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 1
        CR = Command Register [HEX]
        FR = Features Register [HEX]
        SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
        SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
        CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
        CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
        DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
        DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
        ER = Error register [HEX]
        ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 1 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 1018 hours (42 days + 10 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was in an unknown state.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  04 50 01 01 00 00 e0

  Commands leading to the command that caused the error were:
  CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC   Powered_Up_Time  Command/Feature_Name
  -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  ----------------  --------------------
  00 00 01 01 00 00 e0 00      00:39:03.367  NOP [Abort queued commands]
  f0 00 18 6f 8c dc f0 00      00:38:43.244  [VENDOR SPECIFIC]
  f0 00 08 67 8c dc f0 00      00:38:43.235  [VENDOR SPECIFIC]
  f0 00 18 57 8e dc f0 00      00:38:43.232  [VENDOR SPECIFIC]
  f0 00 18 3f 8e dc f0 00      00:38:43.231  [VENDOR SPECIFIC]

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
 SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

Last edited by mtb; 03-11-2007 at 05:47 PM.
 
  


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